APWorld Essential Dates

1242

Mongol invasion of Kyivan Rus.

1258

Invasion of the Abbasid Dynasty.

1271

Mongol invasion of the Song Dynasty.

1346

Black Death rages across Europe and Eurasia.

1368

The Ming Dynasty conquers the Yuan Dynasty.

1452-1493

The Vatican passes the series of 'Doctrine of Discovery' policies.

1453

Ottoman Conquest of the Byzantine Empire.

1490

Spanish Reconquista ends after 700 years.

1492

First Wave of Globalization in the form of European Imperialism in the North and South America.

1517

Protestant Reformation disrupts religious rule in Europe.

1526

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade begins in South America and the Mughal Empire begins on the Indian subcontinent.

1543

European Scientific Revolution begins.

1550

Russian Empire expands eastward into Siberia.

1619

Trans-Atlantic Slavery begins in North America.

1644

Ming Dynasty collapses as the Qing Dynasty begins.

1666

Kongo Civil War weakens African resistance to Europe.

1689

Glorious Revolution spurs European Enlightenment.

1750-1910s

The industrial Revolution begins in England and spreads throughout Europe and North America.

1776-1821

First wave of Revolution in the Age of Revolution leaves North and South America of mostly independent of European colonial rule and slavery by 1888.

1838

British Invasion of China in Opium Wars.

1850

Taping Rebellion intensifies Qing Dynasty decline.

1857

British invasion of India in Sepoy Indian Rebellion.

1858

On origin of Species opening gates to 'Social Darwinism.'

1868

Japan begins era of 'Western Modernization' in the form of the Meiji Restoration.

1884

Berlin Conference begins devastation era of European Imperialism in Africa.

1890

Manifest Destiny ends as the USA fully take over the Pacific West Coast.

1895

The first Sino-Japanese Imperialism in China.

1900

The failed Boxer Rebellion intensifies European imperialism in China.

1905

Russo-Japanese War begins era of Japanese Imperialism in Korea.

1911

The Xinhai Revolution brings end to Qing Dynasty and dynastic rule in China.

1914

The First World War erupts and continues across globe until 1918 with the USA emerging as a superpower.

1917

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins as world's first communist revolution.

1927

The Shanghai Massacre sows the seeds for a civil war in China between CNP and CCP.

1929

The Great Depression begins causing dramatic worldwide shifts in global influence structures and socio-economic ideologies.

1933

Stalin's Soviet-Russian empire begins the Holodomor against the Ukrainian Soviet-subjects Chancellor of Germany.

1937+1939

The Second World War begins in East Asia with the Japanese invasion of Nanking followed by the outbreak of war in Europe with the Nazi-German invasion of Poland.

1941-1945

Six million European Jews are murdered in the Holocaust during the course of the Second World War while ends with the US Atomic Bomb droppings on Japan.

1946

The Cold War begins between the Soviet Union and the United States.

1947-1989

India's independence from Britain marks the start of AGE OF DECOLONIZATION from European empires and influence in Africa and Asia.

1948

The Founding of Israel on the once-British-occupied Palestine begins a new era of enduring ethnic conflict.

1950s-1991

The Korean War marks a new era of proxy wars of the Cold War between the US and the SU throughout Latin America, Asia and Africa until the full collapse of Russia's Soviet Empire.

1960s

The Green Revolution begins.

1979

The Islamic Revolution in Iran begins.

1980s

The digital Revolution begins slowly with the advent of the internet.

2001

The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks set a new era of war on terror.